finally succumbed to twister yesterday. an impending reboot/sequel, a podcast and the desire for a mindless movie were the motivating factors. wasnt quite as insipid as it might have been. what i found most laughable were the ancillary characters who existed only to give the impression of bon homie, that this rag tag bunch were constantly cheerful, a little ribald and fearless in the face of natures wrath but wholly committed to the project and had no interior life otherwise. then they beat you over the head with the nobility of their scientific pursuit of predicting tornadoes to give the common folk more time to seek shelter. they had to hammer this home by destroying part of a town and in the process nearly killing the quirky beloved auntie. she made them all steak AND eggs just hours earlier!!!
anyway, further proof of my cognitive decline and in the interest of all americans i am bowing out of the race.
potato
83 degrees with 66% humidity in my bedroom. might be sleeping on the couch.
one of these people is the new prime minister of great britain.
caveat emptor.
scourge pricing: electronic labels in stores will allow for dynamic pricing.
RIP Robert Towne. A lot of great work, The Last Detail is probably my favorite.
made it half way through a newly minted monthly criterion selection before succumbing to madness. which of these neo noirs caught my fancy? hint: ive never seen it before.
winner gets a pony!
SCOTUS 6-3 with strongly worded dissents
Biden is now a king
shocking but I liked a 46 Rot's on the plane to nyc.......Freud's Last Session
its that time of decade again, youse all. turns out i am from *checks notes* the new york metropolitan area.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E0.srcR.DrckBpWVv1fW&smid=url-share
another one bites the dust.
rip, martin mull.
biden must have really shit the bed last night as every op-ed page is calling for him to drop out. you lose tom friedman.... but if rbg & dianne feinstein taught me anything, these egoists will drag the country down into the grave with them.
Season 3 The Bear just dropped. But tonight I'll watch The Debate.
Jordan Belson at MM NYC
this cheery twat, who invented the oculus vr, will one day likely help kill millions of people.
I watched two good films last night. la ceremonie - a violent tale directed by Claude Chabrol in his usual detached style. Issabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire are excellent. Huppert is hyper-energetic and hilarious, especially in the scenes where the two ransack the house of their victims, an upper-class family in a small town.
I watched the first half a couple of years ago but must have dozed off before the real action started.
And another violent flick pitting the help against the family - The Housemaid, directed by Kim Ki-young • 1960 • South Korea. Reminded me a bit more of Whatever Happend to Baby Jane than Bunuel's surrealism, which it sometimes gets compared to. Lots of camera moves and a very deliberate style overall. Over the top and twisted.
I found both movies on Criterion via the channel's interviews with Bong Joon Ho.
100 Rot's https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21305876/
is it OK for an old man to watch, or just for the young??
Hilma AF Klint beyond the visible. On criterion
Corporations are making tons of money keeping prices high even though their costs have dropped.
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That's why corporate profits are higher than they've been since at least 1947. pic.twitter.com/ExTZlc2GWJ
gonna have to put a tombstone under the dmtree eventually.
With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more… pic.twitter.com/3EdJB03KKT
— Kiefer Sutherland (@RealKiefer) June 20, 2024
had to give disney 10$ a month to watch the new star wars series with commercials
say hey!
Spiritual, by Charles White, 1941, 📸 by Frank Hurley https://t.co/ZyfeU6XseV pic.twitter.com/a9yXybbvQo
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